My group
currently (October 2014) consists of one Ph.D. student and two undergraduate Nanoscience project students. I also have a close collaboration with experimentalists in the laboratory of Prof. John Dutcher, on the subject of bacteria biophysics. Our weekly joint group meetings provide our students with the opportunity to present their latest results to the group in an informal setting.

Research

My interests
lie in theoretical soft materials physics and biophysics. My current research focuses on two
fundamental aspects of polymeric materials: the formation of nanostructures in
polymeric materials via self-assembly, and the interplay between these
structures and the dynamical evolution of the polymeric material. The study of
the structure, dynamics and response of biological assemblies is also
a research theme in my group. We use a combination of sophisticated
analytical theory and high-performance computation to model the behaviour of
these systems.